RIP Mr.Vonnegut

[whodini]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/.../obit_vonnegut

 

[Buickguy]

Godspeed

 

[Augusto86]

Originally Posted by Buickguy

Godspeed

I'm not entirely sure he'd appreciate that comment, but feeling is well-placed.

 

[Stu]

I loved Kurt Vonnegut, a fellow Hoosier and Indianapolis native. I saw him give a lecture in 1983 at Indiana University where I was a freshman. The title of his lecture was: "How to get a job like mine." Of course he spoke nothing of that. He came out and talked about how Reagan had recently said the Soviet Union was the Face of Evil. He said one can better find the face of evil looking down the silo of an ICBM.

Someone asked him to draw an asshole, a la Breakfast of Champions, and he happily obliged, doing so on the overhead projector:


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pardon my poor computer imitation. At any rate, we have lost a true original.

 

[Hawkeye]

So it goes.

 

[shoreman1782]

hawkeye beat me to it! RIP.

* * * * <-- four assholes

 

[gdc_2008]

damn....not that he didn't seem ready to go, but damn just the same.

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[Stu]

Originally Posted by shoreman1782

hawkeye beat me to it! RIP.

* * * * <-- four assholes

Shoreman, your asshole totally blows away my asshole. I am humbled. Shall we call you the master of assholes?

 

[shoreman1782]

Shoreman, your asshole totally blows away my asshole.

If I had a nickel...

Def going to break out my H.S. copy of Slaughterhouse Five tonight.

 

[odoreater]

One of my favorites...

 

[fareau]

This was very upsetting. He was an original.

 

[bachbeet]

One of my faves too. I've read quite a bit of his works. Liked them all. Interesting comments from Vidal about Kurt:

"He was sort of like nobody else," said Gore Vidal, who noted that he, Vonnegut and Norman Mailer were among the last writers around who served in World War II.

"He was imaginative; our generation of writers didn't go in for imagination very much. Literary realism was the general style. Those of us who came out of the war in the 1940s made sort of the official American prose, and it was often a bit on the dull side. Kurt was never dull."

Some Vonnegutisms:

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. (This may be my favorite one.)

 

[Dakota rube]

Thank God his passing didn't involve drain cleaner. RIP.

 

[lawyerdad]

 

[Fabienne]

Originally Posted by Stu

I loved Kurt Vonnegut, a fellow Hoosier and Indianapolis native. I saw him give a lecture in 1983 at Indiana University where I was a freshman. The title of his lecture was: "How to get a job like mine." Of course he spoke nothing of that. He came out and talked about how Reagan had recently said the Soviet Union was the Face of Evil. He said one can better find the face of evil looking down the silo of an ICBM.

Someone asked him to draw an asshole, a la Breakfast of Champions, and he happily obliged, doing so on the overhead projector:


\\./
- . -
/ \\

pardon my poor computer imitation. At any rate, we have lost a true original.

Absolutely. I attended one of his lectures in the 90's at IU. Only the Dalai Lama drew more crowds.